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    The State of Women in Capital Markets

    Sep 01, 2017 4 minutes

    Karen Christensen: Your job entails advocating for the importance of gender diversity to the Canadian economy. How would you summarize your argument?

    Jennifer Reynolds: If you want to have a competitive edge, it just makes sense to use the whole talent pool. How can you possibly think you’ve got the best talent, if 50 per cent of the talent pool is absent from your leadership team? In Canada, 62 per cent of university graduates today are women, so for those who disqualify women, the leadership pool is actually shrinking.

    Most of your career was spent in investment banking. What key lessons did you learn about excelling in this environment?

    At the end of the day, it’s about being able to

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